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t weseammmer mm nme smmz smmminy.... 3 , SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913. m MR. MAISONVILLE ASKS Ready for Inquiry Before an In-- dependent Committee Bays Letter Which Committee Rejected Would Make Interesting Reading in the Legislature--Wires Also to Chairman Ferguson. "Mr. H.>C. Maisonville, former Pri-- vate Secretary to Hon: Dr. ' J. 0. Reaume, does not take kindly to the statements made regarding his con-- duct, as alleged in the investigation into the Proudfoot charges. This re-- cent notoriety has produced a state-- ment from him in Windsor yesterday in reply to the evidence of Hon. W. J. Hanna and Mr. w. K. McNaught, M. T. P. He has wired Mr. G. Howard Ferguson, Chairman of the committee, that he is willing to come to Toronto and testify. Maisonville tells of his message to Mr. Hanna and of the Minister's promise to go to Detroit and see him, when '"everything would be satisfac-- torily explained." That promise was not kept, and later Mr. Hanna, when called up again, said Thorne -- had told him that "Maisonville had no such letter'" as he pretended to have. Of course it has since been proved that Thorne did write the letter in question, which has since been ten-- dered in evidence before the com-- mittee and rejected, After saying that the reading of the letter in the Legislature _ even now would certainly add to the gaiety of nations Maisonville thus refers to the Premier's charge that he stole a letter and was dis-- missed for that offence: To be candid, I am under no obli-- gation to conceal my animus in this matter. I had personally as much reason to dislike Mr. Hanna as the public now has. At the time of my dismissal I went out of my way to take certain responsibility upon my-- self that he might not suffer politi-- cally through the publication of the Hanna--Pyne--Fallon letter. I even